Aqueducts -- Rome -- Italy

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Bini collection (ca. 3000 prints, ca. 2000 contacts and ca. 1500 slides) focuses on archaeological sites in Rome and the Roman world, and also includes images of Etruscan art, and Medieval and Renaissance art and architecture.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Bini collection (ca. 3000 prints, ca. 2000 contacts and ca. 1500 slides) focuses on archaeological sites in Rome and the Roman world, and also includes images of Etruscan art, and Medieval and Renaissance art and architecture.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The Bini collection (ca. 3000 prints, ca. 2000 contacts and ca. 1500 slides) focuses on archaeological sites in Rome and the Roman world, and also includes images of Etruscan art, and Medieval and Renaissance art and architecture.

Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The goal was to provide high quality images of Rome, as few were available at the time. Of the thousands of photographs that Aronson and Millon took during the two flights, only 300 of the clearest images were selected for the publication of the Portfolio. Aronson published the Portfolio in 1979 through his company, Aerpicfoto, which at the time was located in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Abstract Esther Van Deman's work focuses on building materials, working to establish a chronology of construction for the ancient sites. In 1907, while attending a lecture in the Atrium Vestae in Rome, Van Deman noticed that the bricks blocking up a doorway differed from those of the structure itself. Such differences in building materials provided a key to discovering the chronology of ancient structures. Van Deman's basic methodology, with few modifications, became the standard procedure in Roman...